Capturing the Urban Divide in Nighttime Light Images from the International Space Station

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2018, Pages 2578-2586

  Kuffer, Monika ^a   Pfeffer, Karin ^a   Sliuzas, Richard ^a   Taubenbock, Hannes ^b   Baud, Isa ^c   Van Maarseveen, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Deprived areas; Global South; International Space Station (ISS) nighttime light (NTL) images; slums; urban remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); POPULATION STATISTICS; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE OPTICS; SPACE STATIONS; STATISTICS;

DEPRIVED AREAS; GLOBAL SOUTH; NIGHT-TIME LIGHTS; SLUMS; SOCIOLOGY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; URBAN AREAS; URBAN REMOTE SENSING;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGERY; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; URBAN AREA;

AHMEDABAD; BELO HORIZONTE; BRAZIL; DAR ES SALAAM [DAR ES SALAAM (RGA)]; DAR ES SALAAM [TANZANIA]; GUJARAT; INDIA; MAHARASHTRA; MINAS GERAIS; MUMBAI; TANZANIA;

EID: 85047603196     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2018.2828340     Document Type: Article

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